The Wild Wood PT 2

Deep in the magic forest in the
small village of Dudley the people were running to the market
place, where something strange was going on.They saw a very odd
looking stranger, he was dressed in a long robe of many colours.
He had long white hair to his shoulders a long beard, twinkling
eyes and a friendly smile. When he saw all the people coming
towards him he stood up to greet them.

"Good day my friends! Thank you
for your welcome. I have come from a distant land many miles
away." He sat down on the wooden bench, beside him was a large
wicker basket with a lid which seemed to move now and again. The
people edged a little nearer trying to see what he had in the
basket.The people weren't too sure of the stranger, and wanted to
know more about him, one asked,

"I wonder if he's a magician,
wizard or just a peddler?" Then someone else asked.

"Iwonder what he has in that big
basket?" A woman in the crowed called out,

"You stupid muffins! The only way
to find out is to ask him." So the group slowly walked up to him
and asked,

"Sir we were wondering, what do
you have in your basket that is so special? Will you be selling
it at the market?"

The stranger stood up and said to
the people gathered around him.

"I am a magician my friends. I am
not selling anything. I will show you all a most unusual egg I
have found on my travels.He carefully opened the lid of the
basket. There were many"Ooooos and Aaaaah's" from the
crowd.

"I believe it's a dragons egg."
That did it ! They all started to find somewhere to hide. The
cats shot up the nearest tree, the dogs hid behind the stalls and
boxes. The magician laughed to see the mad scramble to get away
from the basket.

"My friends! Please. Come back!
There's nothing to harm you. I know it's a special dragon, when
the shell opens and the baby dragon is white, I know then it will
be aGood Luck dragon and will help you all. I think I can hear
something moving in the basket."

The people began coming out of
hiding to see what was happening to the egg.They could hear the
cracking sounds as the egg shell broke open, and there in the
middle of the shell sat a white baby dragon. It was trying to
stand and stretch it's wings and made a tiny puff of smoke. The
crowd clapped and the excited children danced around calling
out.

"We have a Good Luck Dragon !
Yippy!"

"I will leave the dragon in your
care and as it grows bigger it will protect your village and do
no harm, I may come back this way again so look after him well."
He said something to the dragon, gave him a pat, then
vanished.

Well my friends.They were lucky to
have a Good Luck dragon. There's not many of them to be had, not
even in TESCOS.so for now I will close my covers until next time
when I find more stories to tell you ,sweet dreams ! RAGS.

BLACKBERRIES.

Hi Thereit's me with another story
to tell you, let me see now. This story is about a pixie called
Jinks, very playful and always getting into mischief, and usually
landing himself in trouble. One bright and sunny morning he
decided to go across a field carrying a basket to collect some
big juicy blackberries to make some jam for his tea. He was
careful to keep out of the way of the large animals in the
field.

He slowly made his way along the
bushes, picking all the biggest ones he could find. There was one
he spotted just out of his reach and, putting his basket on the
ground, he looked for a stick to poke at it. There were plenty
around but too short to reach. He tried everything he could think
of but that blackberry wouldn't budge an inch. Jinks was getting
cross at that blackberry and at himself,

"If I can squeeze through the
brambles just a little and poke the stick up it might knock it
off then again it might not." Poor Jinks was now getting hot and
bothered and determined not to let that blackberry beat him. He
found a few more sticks to push the bush open enough for him to
get in,but the brambles closed trapping him. The horrid thorns on
the brambles tore at his coat as he moved about trying to free
himself.

"Alright. You can keep the
blackberry, only please let me out of here." The sticks that
Jinks had propped the brambles open moved, and he was able to get
out.

"Pheeeew! Thank goodness! I'm out
of there.Oh my coat is torn now! What am I going to do?" He was
so cross he bent down, picked up a stick and threw it at the
bush. SURPRISE! The blackberry fell off and landed at his
feet.Jinks put it in his basket,and went back over the field
keeping away from the animals, to the wood where the fairy folk
lived.

Their houses were made from big
toadstools with windows, doors and crooked chimneypots puffing
wisps of smoke now and again.Jinks knocked on the frontdoor of a
large toadstool, it belonged to a family of dwarfs who were all
tailors. The dwarfs had long pointed ears,sparkly eyes and big
grins, all dressed in long tail coats, pantsand long slippers
with the toes curled up. They all wore different colours as they
were the rainbow dwarfs.They all knew Jinks and asked him into
their colourful home. When they saw his coat all torn at the back
and pockets ripped off, the elder dwarf said.

"What have you been up to Jinks to
get your coat torn like that?"One of the others saw the basket of
blackberries he was trying to hide behind his back. "I went to
pick a few berries to make jam for my tea, and a very big one at
the top I tried to reach it when I got tangled in the brambles,
is there anything you can do with my poor coat?" The dwarfs
looked at the coat and shook their heads.

"We will make you a new coat of
many colours, it will be ready tomorrow." Jinks was so excited
thanked the dwarfs, picked up his basket and ran home thinking to
himself.

"A basket full of berries, and a
new coat. I know what I'll do," And taking the basket into the
kitchen he put a few in a pan for the jam and made a crusty
blackberry pie, with the others for the dwarfs.The next day he
put the pie in his basket and went to collect his new coat. He
ran all the way to the rainbow house and knocked on the
door.

"Come in, Jinks. Your coat is
ready to try on." It fitted like a glove, and he twisted and
twirled around the room. It was made of all the colours of the
rainbow in little patches.

"I love it I love it!Thank you all
! There is a surprise in my basket for you all." The dwarfs put
the basket on the table and with a big "OH!" They rushed around
for plates and spoons. One of them brought a jug of cream , then
they all tucked into the scrumptious pie.

And that my friend is that for now
until the next time!!

HOT! PANTS!.

In an enchanted forest, where
inavery big cave, tha twent deepunder ground. There were many
tunnels, some large and some small .Thewater dripping off the
roof of the cave and slowly running down the walls making
stalactites and weird shapes and sparkling as the water dripped
into the warm water, making the air in the cave nice and
warm.

Now this cave is the home of a
large green dragon, his name is Gilbert and a very friendly
dragon, also he has a peta large white rat who lives with him
called Wilber, who looks after Gilbert and cooks his food and
other things, like getting scraps and coal. Gilbert was fast
asleep, and looked so peaceful with his glasses still onhis long
nose, after reading yesterdays paper.

A piece of uneaten cheese still on
a plate beside him, Wilber had his eye on itbut wouldn't touch it
, as they had been friends for a long time and friendship ment
more to him than that dried up piece of moldy cheese. Gilbert
supplied the fire for Wilber to cook on, butas he was only small
Wilber used a long stick with a fork on the end to toast whatever
food he could find.

Gilbert was beginning to wake up,
stretching himself yawning,and flapping his wings just a little
so as not to knock anything over. He looked around andsaw Wilber
sitting on his box by the fire, toasting a piece of cheese and
some mushrooms, he had found for his masters breakfast. "That
smells good Wilber do you have some for yourself."

"Thank you I will the paper man
has left a basket of food for you with the paper this
morning."

"That was very kind of him as I
don't go out very often, the village people keep us supplied with
food in exchange for a little help from me, as you know from time
to time." The dragon has also a very good friend a certain white
knight would often visits and talksto Gilbert,giving him all the
news,of thepeople in the village, the knight has a beautiful
white horse called Valiant he has a very long mane and a long
flowing tail that almost touches the ground, he stays outside the
cave, because he'sa little frightened of the dragon, although he
would never hurt him.

Gilberts friend Sir Percy likes to
sit and chat about the things Gilbert dose, for instance a very
good job of scaring off unwanted guests.

"Ah do you remember? Gilbert the
time when a few young Knights, roamed about the village, and
caused a lot of trouble." Gilbert never hurts anyone, but he can
do a good job at scaring them away. Well on that particular day.
A few young Knights were showing off in their new suits of
armour, and making a lot of noise as usual , frightening the
villagers.

Gilbert crept slowly into the town
and hid behind a barn and drank a large bucket of water left for
him, then waited for the show offs to come his way. He didn'thave
long to wait. They had left their horses in the stables and the
terrible noise they made clanking about falling over and
scrambling to get back on their feet again. Gilbert took a chance
he sprang out on them, and sprayed them with very hot steam,
sending them howling in all directions finishing up all sitting
in the village duck pond sending the ducks flapping away, and the
villagers cheering!.

You see boiling hot steam and
metal trousers don't! Mix and Gilbert gave them something to
think about "HOT PANTS"

The young Knights certainly learnt
a lesson they wouldn't forget fora long time and said they were
sorryto the villagers and made friends with Gilbert, as they said
with a friend like Gilbert who needs enemies. The next day the
villagers gave him a big bucket of coal, for helping them. and
waved goodbye as he carried the bucket home with Wilber sitting
on his head, and feeling very pleased with himself, and with
extra coal as the winter was coming and the nights getting
cold.

Gilbert and his friend Percy as he
calls him often sit by the fire, with Wilber and tell the story
of the hot pants and laugh while they all tuck into the toasted
cheese on toast and a mushroom or too, and wondering what other
adventures may come.

MAGIC DREAMS.

Somewhere in the land of Never-Was
a place where anything can happen. As in dreams of dragons,
wizards, witches and all the things that go bump in the night. A
place of magical dreams that come and go in a puff of
smoke.Never-Was has many exciting tales to tell of dragons good
and bad. There was one dragon, so mean and angry that it stopped
him from breathing fire, so he started to eat coal, but all he
could manage was a sooty smoke and a nasty cough.

One day a very powerful wizard
Benoza watched the dragon for a while,

"That's a nasty cough you have."
The dragon just scowled at the wizard.

"It's your own fault you know for
smoking coal." The dragon blew out another cloud of black smoke,
and started to cough again.The wizard was getting very angry, at
the stupid dragon puffing out clouds of smoke everywhere.

"That's it! I can see there's no
other way. I'm going to banish you to a black hole in space,
until you mend your ways." And so he did.

Wizard Benoza is very kind, and
has many friends.One day a young witch called Lexis, who was
rather round went to see him and cried

"Please Benoza can you help me?"
She had her boot strings tied together, and put them around her
neck while her odd striped socks on her feet were still steaming,
as she had been running so fast. in between her sniffs and trying
to dry her eyes, she said.

"My broom is on strike, it has
turned upside down, and stamps on the floor with it's handle. It
refuses to let me fly what ! Am I to do with it?" The wizard
looked at his young friend Lexis and tried not to laugh.

"Lexis I'm afraid I cannot help.
Only you can do that. I feel sorry but you are what you eat and
I'm afraid sometimes too much. I will help if I can. When you
start to get lighter, then your broom will be rearing to go up in
the air and away with you."

"Oh thank you. I feelmuch better
now." Her socks now dry and she put them on , then with the laces
in her boots put them on said.

"Next time I come to see you I
will be flying Goodbye." and started the long walk home.

Benoza is the most powerful wizard
in the land, but even he can use a little help from his many
helpers from the village and his special dwarfs. And the many
books of spells of the most famous wizard of all in the dark
ages, Merlin, has helped him sort out many problems of bad dreams
, that pop up now and again. There was a knock onthe kitchen
door."See who it is " Benoza called from the parlour.

One of the dwarfs being a might
short put a stool by the door so he could reach the latch. Then
he jumped off and opened the door. Alot of people were waiting to
see Benoza, one man stepped forward.

"Sir we are being plagued by
something we can't see. Things knocked over in houses, doors
banging, mouse traps open no dead mice but the cheese
gone.everyone keeps having their cheese stolen" Benoza had been
walking up and down while stroking his beard and nodding his head
now and again. "Mmmmmm I may have an answer.

Bring me the largest round cheese
you can find tonight, then we will find out what happens ." That
night the men struggled in with the huge cheese, wrapped in paper
and put it on the table that groaned with its weight. Benoza
smiled looking at the size of the cheese and told the men to hide
behind the screen in the corner, then making himself invisible
whispered "Now we wait "

The only sound was the ticking of
the old clock standing in the corner and rustling sound like
someone was tearing the paper of the cheese. The men tried to see
and peeped through a hole in the screen.There was nothing there
.Then they saw Benoza holding up by the scruff of his neck and
the seat of his pants a hob-goblin with a piece of cheese in his
hand.

"Let me go." He screamed at the
wizard kicking and wriggling trying to get free from his
grip.

"I think you have something to do,
starting by saying sorry to all the people you have stolen from."
Benoza muttered something then let him go

"You will not be able to disappear
now I have removed the invisibility spell" The goblin sat on the
table looking miserable and feeling sorry for himself. The men
came from behind the screen clapped and laughed at the funny
sight.Now and again a rather strong pong was emitting and wafting
across the room the men were holding their noses . Benoza told
the goblin he has to earn his cheese bydoing odd jobs for the
villagers. He would get more cheese that way, and turning
around,

"Will someone get rid of that
horrid ponging cheese befor it starts to grow legs!" As he said
that the cheese began to glow green. Two men grabbed it and made
for the door. All the people moved out of the way, they put it
away from the house and ran back just in time as the cheese
exploded with an almighty bang!! With green cheese flying
everywhere.

Back in the house Benoza calmed
everyone down except the goblin still standing on the table, his
face going green his knees knocking and a piece of cheese in his
hand going green too Benoza looked at him.

"Run get rid of it now!! As fast
as you can," He jumped off the table and threw it as far as he
could. Nearly too late as it started to fizz and shot off like a
rocket into space.Everything was covered with the smelly stuff !
And a small piece certainly went a long way,

That's all for now more stories
about Benoza next time.

"I believe I know who played that
nasty prank on you all. There are three nasty old crones of
witches and they delight in scaring people, and when I find them
I will teach them a lesson they won't forget in a hurry, they
might finish up in the same black hole as the dragon."He said
goodbye to the people, and with two of his dwarf friends picked
up his carpet bag and they all disappeared in a puff of blue
smoke.then everyone went home, A spell locked the doors of the
house while the wizard was on his travels.

There wasn't much happening in
Never-Was until a strange howling and growling was heard coming
from the forest, and a crashing and crunching sound as if
something big was walking through the brambles,. The people shut
their doors and windows. The weird noise coming from the forest
was barking but it wasn't any local dogs.A few brave men armed
themselves with pitch forks, poles and one had an old gun as the
forest was not the place to be after dark

They were covered in capes with
hoods to hide themselves from whatever it was making the terrible
howling. It started again and close by the men who nearly jumped
out of their skins, when from behind one of the big trees stepped
a big hairy animal. It's face was that of a long nosed bear, with
fangs and red eyes. It's hands had claws. It stood on two feet
and it sniffed the air,and looked in the direction where the men
were hiding and gave a terrible howl! That did it the men dropped
their capes and shouted

"It's a werewolf! Run!"They went
in all directions like the wind their feet hardly touching the
ground, as the beast raced after them to the edge of the forest.
The people went running with lots of lights to scare the beast
off. the men puffing and panting gasped,

"Benoza will know what to do,
after he has sorted out the three bad witches."The people put as
many lanterns they could find at the edge of the forest, to keep
the werewolf and any others in the forest.

Benoza found the three bad witches
in a cave at the edge of the dark forest, all huddledaround a
fire with a large black cauldron bubbling away and hissing out
steam. They didn't see the wizard until one of them turned
around.

"Oh sisters we have a visitor. Who
do we have the honour?"

"You all know who I am, and I know
that you have been scaring people and it has got to stop now!."
holdinguphis armsand waving his wand in the air."You have had
your fun now its time tp pay.your heading for a black hole in
space to join the dragon I sent there but now he is cured of
smoking coal and his cough has gone.He has turned over a new leaf
and is a good dragon now.The witches were getting scared.

"What is going to happen to us?"
"There are bad dreams coming from the vanishing Kingdom of
Haligon and the nightmare creatures are free in the Kingdom .I
have the power and will need some help." The witches muttered to
themselves.

"We can't you have taken away our
magic and grounded us. Why should we help you."

"By helping me you are also
helping yourselves, Shaking off the black magic for good magic."
They agreed.then Benoza waved his wand over the witches and the
dragon and picking up his carpet bag with the dwarfs they all
vanished back home just in time to hear what's going on in the
forest. The people told him about the werewolves.In between
trying to grab something to eat ,Benoza held up his hand.

"I havejust the thing to stop
them.. Outside! Follow me I have a dragon over there who is now
cured of his bad habits and wants to show you what he can do ."
Benoza went over to the dragon and with a tap on his nose with
his wand, whispered.

"Give it all you've got!" The
dragon took one, two, three, deep breaths and blew a longflame of
fire making the dragon glow red."WOW!"

Everyone clapped and danced around
.Benoza stood next to the dragon who was feeling very pleased
with himself.

"I don't think the werewolves are
likely to bother us again. They have gone to where all the
nightmares go. Far out into space beyond the black holes, never
to return to this land." A ltleboy went to Benoza and tugged at
his long sleeve. "Has your dragon got a name?" Benoza laughed" He
as now I call him Smoky just to remind him not to eat coal gain.
He's coming with me and the three witches to the Kingdon of
Haligon to help the noble knights drive away all the horrid
nightmare creaatures for ever.

Never-Was is still a place were
anything can happen and dose. While everyone dreams.The magic is
that nothing can hurt you in a dream. As soon as you wake they
are gone! Benoza and Smoky are now home withall their friends
talking abouttheir adventures.

THE MUSICAL CLOWNS.

"Hi There it's me again Rags with
another story to tell you

This one is about a group of
musical clowns. They played all kinds of instruments flutes,
trumpets, guitar and violin and went around many market places to
entertain the people while they bourght fruit , flowers and
vegetables from the colourful stalls, then just sat and listened
to their music. One day as the clowns set off through a wood,
playing as they went along,the paths. Many small animals followed
on behind enjoying the music, One of the clowns who played the
violin stopped and called out.

" Oh! The strings on my bow have
snapped! I can't play anymore what can I do?"

The clowns stopped so suddenly
causing them to bump into each other, and fell in a heap, making
the small animals shoot off in all directions. The clowns laughed
as they sorted themselves out, brushing the leaves off their
clothes and instruments, the tallest clown called out "Have you
got anymore strings Marko?"

"No! BiffoI haven't they are
special magic strings and I don't know where to find
anymore."

"We might find someone in the next
village, if anyone can help us."

They carried on walking and
singing along the winding paths, and stopped when they saw an
unusual shapped round cottage, in the middle of the wood. It was
painted in many colours, a redroof, green and yellow walls, blue
door mauve windows and grey smoke curling out of the crooked
black chimney pot.

"Jingle go and knock on the door,
and see who lives there." The small clown with his knees
knocking, crept upto the door, turned looked back at the others
waiting to see whoopened the door.

"Go on Jingle knock on the door!"
Poor Jingle timidly knocked on the door turned tail and ran back
to the others. The door slowly opened and a dwarf stood on the
step and looked to see who was there and shook his had, then a
few more dwarfs came to see.

"Did you see who it
wasRed?"

"No Blue someone knocked and ran
away." All the clowns had been watching then Biffo plucked up
courage to goand talk to the dwarfs.

"My name is BiffoI'm very sorry
Jingle was scared and ran. We are trying to find anyone to help
us find the special magic strings for Marko's violin." The dwarfs
invited all the clowns in their cottage and sat them at the round
table,with mugs of hot chocolate and told them they could help,
but first they needed the clowns to collect things from the wood.
Biffo and Marko were ready to collect anything the dwarfs asked
for.

"Marko as it's you're violin we
need you to find as many large cobwebs with the early morning dew
still on them, and Biffo a few white and mauve thistle down also
with the dew."

The other clowns also went to
help. After a while the clowns were back at the cottage with
everything the dwarfs wanted, and sat at the table to watch was
going to happen. The dwarfs put on very tall hats that wobbled as
if they were alive. Then theyput the things on a silver tray. The
dwarfs formed a circle held hands, and bent their heads so the
hats touched.

Suddenly a bright light flashed in
the room and on the tray then it disappeared, The dwarfs stood up
to see, there, on the tray were long silvery strands of magic
strings. Marko jumped up and with his violin put a new string on
his bow,and began to play the sweetest sounds the dwarfs have
ever heard. The other clowns joined in to entertain the dwarfs to
thank them for their help.

Biffo wanted to know more about
the dwarfs, their colourful cottage and their strange names and
those! Hats! The dwarfs laughed at Biffo and Red said. "Oh that's
easy Biffo we are the Rainbow dwarfs, and take our names from the
colours of it. Our cottage is painted withits colours. Our tall
hats hold our magic and will only work when our hats
touch."

The clowns said goodbye and played
their music as they went to the next market."I hope you enjoyed
that story weren't they lucky to find the dwarfs till next time
RAGS.

THE DOORS.

Have you, ever had one of those
dreams where you feel you are in it and surrounded with a lot of
different kinds of doors, like in a hall of mirrors. I felt a bit
like Alice-in-Wonderland, trying them one at a time. I found a
strange looking door. A very big, strong and single door. The
colour has a metallic look with a tinge of mauve.

A shadow falls across the door, as
far as I can tell the door isn't made of wood. It is made up with
many panelslong ones upright and shorter across making a
pattern.I can't tell if the ladder effect on the right is
connected to the door. In the centre of the door is a large mask
like face of a jinni, very fierce and forbidding as often seen in
stories like the Arabian Nights it's the face of the guardian on
the door.

On the right side of the door is a
very large knocker in the shape of a hand with a clawed fist.
Underneath is a rosette shape with a face in the centre, and
below that a very big handle, with a decoration on the top to
match. The knocker had to be strong to pull the huge door
open.

The door seems to have a glow
about it, that makes it look like it's made of metalof some kind,
and has been standing there for ages. It's the kind of door
covered in mystery and I'm wondering what is the face on the door
guarding? Could it be a doorway to another world in space?

It sparked off my imagination and
I could be whisked off on a flight of fancy to make believe
worlds of magic just waiting to be found. To touch the door it
makes me feel excited and also cautious, the kind of feeling that
makes your hair stand on end as if the door was to suddenly open!
And who or what opened it?

The handel is very strong and
tough and being metal feels cold to touch. After a few tugs and
with a groan the door opened slowly. Wow! It opened on to a
beautiful garden, and a magnificent medieval castle can be seen
in the distance. I'm not sure if I should go, in case the magic
door shuts again and I'm trapped inside the garden.Well here
goes! if I don't go, I will never know what else there is to see.
I haven't a clue where I am but there's an eerie feeling as if
i'm not alone?

The flowers are like the colours
of the rainbow and the smell of the flowers fill the air with a
magic perfume of delight, to add to the trickling sound of
waterfrom many statues in the fountains. Water trickled over the
moss and made it a soft green carpet to walk on passed a bed of
sweet smelling pinks and lavender.

I heard a strange sound in the
distance, was it a fox? No, what can it be to make that chilling
sound? There it goes again! Now I see something moving along the
gravel path, there were two very large peacocks one royal blue
with a brilliantly coloured fan like tail with long feathers that
looked like eyes. The other bird was white with the same coloured
feathers. They have very small heads for such big birds,that
weird crying sound they make sends shivers up and downmy
spine.

I saw the regal way they slowly
walked past, with their beautiful tails movinggently from side to
side, The many colours in the feathers stand out as the sun shone
through the tail when it completely surrounds the bird. I can see
someome walking in the garden, and coming this way. I'm not sure
just yet, as this is a magic garden, who it might be?

Now I can see a strange chair with
legs and a tail walking towards me and sitting on it an old
gentleman with long white hair, and a long beard to his knees. He
is wearing a long green robe and a dark green cloak covered with
stars, and not forgetting his pointed hat and red slippers. I
might have guessed a wizard. He tapped the chair to stop and came
to me.

"Tell me who you are? And how did
you get into my magic garden?

"My name is Joyce sir and you are
in my dream I found a picture of a door. I just opened it and
found myself in your beautiful garden with those marvellous
peacocks."

"My goodness! The guardian on my
door must have been asleep. No matter, you're here now. Come let
me show you all the magic in my garden." He tapped the chair, it
seemed wider as it stood up,and the wizard sat back.

"Come along Joyce. Sit beside me.
It's perfectly safe and I'll do the grand tour of the magic
garden." I sat in the chair and it started to walk. It felt
strange, not only sitting and talking to a wizard, but a chair
with four legs a tail and a lions head! I just sat held on tight
and enjoyed the ride.

"Tell me sir, why do you have a
chair with legs that can move?"

"In a magic garden any kind of
wheels would damage the ground, Now ! If you had soft paws as my
chair has it can walk anywhere it wants to go."

"Are there anymore animals in the
garden sir?" The wizard tapped on the chair to stop and we walked
beside a large fountain with fish of many colours. "I have many
kinds of animals. Over there are my pink flamingos and multi
coloured parakeets,and all the small animals that like to play
about, but I also have a Dodo bird."

I thought to myself I'm going to
wake up in a minute how can he have a Dodo bird they have been
extinct for hundreds of years!"iknow what you are thinking Joyce,
they are almost a mystical creature but in this garden with magic
you can have anything you disire. Come along there is more to
see," He called to the chair, we both sat on it and off it
went.

I began to wonder how was I to get
back through the magic door, am I still dreaming! He showed me
many weird plants that were able to move about, and some able to
make a twittering sound.

"Don't get too near Joyce, they
can be very snappy when they see my chair coming," The lions head
on the back of the chair beganto roar. I jumped off and ran to
the first door. I found it was the door I came in. I waved
goodbye to the wizard and went through. Only to find myself back
in bed. Well that was a weird dream, I'm glad I went through that
door now.